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author | Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org> | 2008-10-12 16:11:10 +0200 |
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committer | Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org> | 2008-10-14 22:45:00 +0200 |
commit | b5afee88034691f4d360e25f5533d9fcfeead81d (patch) | |
tree | dfce7833299ad1a967cad8a569709b3b956dbc43 /README | |
parent | f07e9117d0f018b6ec48d5f5dca599dcff280684 (diff) |
Add TODO and README file
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@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Migrating from legacy binary document formats to ODF can be a pain if documents +use fonts that only support some non unicode encodings (e.g. armscii or +viscii). +Odfrecode allows to remap these characters sets to the appriopriate unicode +codepoints after they've been converted to ODF and makes it therefore possible +to get rid of the legacy fonts used in this documents. + +There are two tools available: + +* odfrecode is noninteractive and can be used for batch conversion +* odfrecode-gtk shows a dialog after conversion which allows the user to + direclty open the converted Document in OpenOffice (or another ODF capable + application). This can e.g. be used in a Nautilus/Konqueror/Dolphin context menu. + +The following example recodes foo.odt from armscii8 to unicode: + + odfrecode-gtk --recoder=armscii8 foo.odt + +New converters can easily be added. For a simple example have a look at +odfrecode/recoders/romanian.py. |